Rachael Ray wore a black and white patterned scarf at a shoot for a Dunkin’ Donuts ad. As a Blood to a blue bandana or a Crip to a red one, LGF pulled out their rhetorical guns and started firing. ‘Aren’t those the colors of Yassir Arafat’s group, Al Fatah?’ LGF wonders.

Dunkin’ Donuts pulled the ad rather than risk offending anyone. The scarf had a paisley design, a company spokesman told LGF — and no one disputes that.

Does anyone else see the irony of Little Green Footballs complaining about this and inciting a mob? What will they do when they realize that green was Mohammed’s favorite color, and is almost an official color of Islam?

And when the truth comes out, will it be that LGF was mainstreaming terrorism to sell Little GreenFootballs — like mob action against a donut shop — occasionally outing one of their friends or some innocent person to avoid suspicion themselves?

Pandagon keeps feet on the ground: “I had to double check the URL to make sure this isn’t a Malkin parody site, because this is hard to swallow as written by a sincere human being. The paranoid wingnuttery is too pitch perfect.”

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They called the man a hero, for years he played the part
We knew he had the guts and will, we thought he had the heart
But somewhere in that prison, they sowed an awful seed
That made him think he was absolved from any future deed

When he made it to the Senate, his honor was intact
And when he made a few wrong moves, he somehow pulled it back
But the seed that they’d implanted, took root within his soul
As ambition grew unfettered, the hero lost his hold

Chorus:
And the ghost of Joe McCarthy is howling from the grave
As Palin and her running mate resurrect the shame
They’ve conjured up a blacklist, are we that naïve and lame
To let the ghost of Joe McCarthy speak through John McCain

Now his fall from grace is written, in his eyes, across his face
While he’s tried to hide behind the skirts, of a creature filled with hate
Let the witches stir the cauldron, there’ll be blood on all our hands
If we give in to the fear they’ve strewn, across our fabled land

You’re assuming that this was an Arab-style headdress done in the pattern of Al Fatah. There is not a shred of evidence to support that claim.

Red, white and blue are the traditional colors of the French Revolution — that doesn’t make the U.S. flag a tribute to the Reign of Terror.

Sometimes a black and white scarf is just a black and white scarf.

Absent any showing of any political animus on the part of Dunkin’ Donuts or Rachael Ray, it’s awfully uncharitable of anyone to suggest there is some — not to mention paranoiac and disassociative.

As I noted, Little Green Footballs uses Mohammed’s favorite color. Symbols are important — why shouldn’t they change their behavior? Why aren’t you all over them for their support of Islamic terrorists? There’s a greater liklihood that a political bunch like LGF would be doing that than Rachael Ray, famous family cook, would be.

While I agree this is ridiculous because her scarf looks simply like a scarf, I’d like to play the devel’s advocate. We must remember symbols have always represented an important part of all cultures throughout time. Had Rachel Ray worn a swastika arm band or white hood the world would have been appalled. I am amazed that certain forms of dress have become en vogue. As an expatriate from the U.S. it disturbs me that we can be so insensitive especially after 911 and I can only attribute this to ignorance. For many of us living elsewhere in the world, we see up close what these symbols represent. These organizations and governments actively support the suppression of women, the banning of freedom of religion and speech, and the tacit acceptance of violence against innocent human beings all in the name of a cause or belief. Have we become so P.C. that we refuse to tell the truth or are we somehow hoping that our own human/democratic values are also shared by all? Read, listen and observe. Actions always speak louder than words. Remember, symbols are powerful messages!

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